Plenty of saxophonists learning the game in the 1950s made John Coltrane their lodestar for his famous ferment of spiritual gravitas and storming improv intensity – but his best disciples took that sound as a […]
Last night, BBC One shifted its schedules to broadcast a film about the making of the “final” Beatles single, Now and Then. It was brief and rather moving, but it offered a tactfully bowdlerised version […]
There’s a lot of stuff to stream nowadays. In hopes of helping you watch more good movies and TV, we sum up some of the most exciting titles streaming across all platforms in our weekly […]
A new Beatles song called “Now and Then,” billed as the final song from the legendary band, will be released on Thursday, November 2nd. The following day, a music video for the song,” helmed by […]
Bar Italia are tired of being a mystery. The trio – who have spent their brief existence breathlessly feted as London’s most exciting new band, as well as its most enigmatic – are very much […]
Nobody came to Frankie Valli’s wedding over the summer, which was exactly how the 89-year-old singer wanted it. “Oh, it was terrific,” he recalls of the very private ceremony at Las Vegas’ Westgate Hotel, where […]
The Pitch: It’s perhaps the easiest sell of all time: What would happen if we took an enormous, record-breaking, joyfully communal tour, professionally recorded it, and tossed it in theaters? Taylor Swift is a mastermind, […]
Game Time with Cheatwell We have THREE Spot The Intro games from Cheatwell to give away, £25.83 from Amazon. The addictive audio quiz game in which teams compete to recognise songs from just 10 second […]
Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley appeared last night (Friday, October 13) at this year’s Kiss Cancer Goodbye II fundraiser for the American Cancer Society on Harvest House campus in Sarasota, Florida. Fan-filmed video of Frehley‘s […]
Agnetha Fältskog’s recent single, Where Do We Go From Here?, came with an animated video. It depicted the cartoonish version of the Abba singer that is permanently burned into the collective memory: blond hair, blue […]
Pop music rarely makes us think about mortality. But it’s something that hangs heavily over S Club tonight, the teenage pop group who came to prominence as S Club 7 on the 90s kids TV […]
On Oct. 20, 1979, high school friends Angela Brown, Cheryl Cook and Gwendolyn Chisolm found themselves in a make-or-break audition. Like many adventurous teens, the Columbia, S.C., natives were enamored with a new musical art […]
Queen Latifah gives hip-hop “a whole lot of credit” for where her legacy stands. Looking back on her emergence in the 1980s — when she introduced her vibrant Afrocentric style and women empowerment anthems to […]
In a crowded festival marketplace that nevertheless often cleaves to a relatively timid and tight crop of British, European and American artists, Womad provides a vital yearly reminder of the breadth of the planet’s music. […]
During the kaiju boom of the 1960s in Japan, Godzilla undoubtedly reigned supreme. But he was by no means the only giant creature tromping around Tokyo. Toho had other heavy hitters like Mothra and Ghidorah; […]
So many celebrity photos cover the inside of the original El Cholo off Western Avenue that they probably hold up the restaurant as much as the walls themselves. There are the sports icons — Magic […]
Barbie, one half of the unprecedented “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, is an international sensation. The film blew past all expectations, earning $155 million in its first three days in theaters. But even Barbie stands on the shoulders […]
Miranda Lambert ain’t “settling down.” The selfie-shaming country crooner called yet another unscheduled time-out in the middle of her Las Vegas residency on Saturday to address the audience. This time, however, it was to enthusiastically […]
British pop singer Vince Hill, who reached No 2 in the UK charts in 1967 with a cover of The Sound of Music song Edelweiss, has died at the age of 89. Hill died peacefully […]
The “Ice Ice Baby” rapper got real cold with the country star. Rapper Vanilla Ice threw some shade at country star Miranda Lambert after she slammed a pair of fans for taking a selfie during […]